About the Authors
- Anne Seidlitz
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* E-mail: anne.seidlitz@uni-greifswald.de
Affiliation Institute of Pharmacy, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Nadine Kotzan
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Affiliation Institute of Pharmacy, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Stefan Nagel
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Affiliation Institute of Pharmacy, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Thomas Reske
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Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
- Niels Grabow
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Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
- Claus Harder
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Affiliation Biotronik SE & Co. KG, Erlangen, Germany
- Svea Petersen
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Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
- Katrin Sternberg
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Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
- Werner Weitschies
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Affiliation Institute of Pharmacy, Center of Drug Absorption and Transport, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
Competing Interests
CH is an employee of Biotronik SE & Co., whose company provided the uncoated Pantera Lux balloon catheters used in this study. B. Braun Melsungen AG provided the hemostatic valves used in this study. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AS SN WW. Performed the experiments: AS NK TR SP. Analyzed the data: AS NK SN WW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS SN TR NG CH SP KS WW. Wrote the paper: AS SN WW.